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Dohn, Niels B.; Madsen, Peter T.; Malte, Hans – Advances in Physiology Education, 2009
Situational interest has been identified as an important motivational variable that has an impact on students' academic performances, yet little is known about how the specific variable of the learning environment might trigger students' situational interest. The purpose of this study was to investigate sources that stimulate the interest of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Interests, Physiology, College Faculty
Dochy, F. J. R. C.; Steenbakkers, W. H. L. – 1988
In this preliminary investigation (part of a study of the role of prior knowledge in learning) the views of students about prior knowledge and the importance it has for learning were studied. An effort was made to verify whether the previously proposed model of the concept was congruent with student views. Forty of 120 students at the Open…
Descriptors: Background, College Students, Experience, Foreign Countries